fandomtownies | The Park - Monday mid-morning

Kaidan had seen the park during the realtor's tour of the island, but hadn't had a chance to check it out. He decided to rectify that Monday morning during his daily jogging routine. Wearing knee-length board shorts and a sleeveless t-shirt, he tied on his trainers and headed out. Taking Godiva South, he noted the names as Serendipity became Galactica became Thunderbird. Heading South on Griffin, he caught up to Apocolypse Ave, grimacing slightly at that name. He'd had quite enough apocolypse already, thankyouverymuch. Turning up Minotaur, he transferred from sidewalk to park path, and once into the shade of the trees, increased his pace.

The air was lush in the greenery, and filled with birdsong. Some he recognized, some were entirely new, and some.. well, some sounded just plain odd. Could be unfamiliarity, could be an odd species of bird nobody had ever seen off-island. Kaidan was slowly adjusting to the new paradigm of 'normal' that his life had shifted to. Trilling peeps from further up the path indicated there was probably some form of pond or frog-harboring marshland he would need to investigate for the possibility of a fishing hole.

His feet hit the pavement with a steady, rhythmic stride. His gaze, like his thoughts, far away.

[OOC: Open for rp, may be slow through the day.]
[OOC2: Tags don't seem to exist for Peebee or I?]

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"Sounds like a way for me to lose my shirt," Kaidan grinned, "I usually avoid playing for credits. Dejarik sounds fun. Do you have a board for that here?"

"Oh, I've definitely lost my fair share of shirts," Kanan laughed. "Sabacc is never a good idea, but it's always an interesting time. As for dejarik, I don't have a board of my own, but I think I know someone who might. And if Hera doesn't have one on her ship, I can always pick one up the next time we swing back to our own galaxy for a day or two. They aren't exactly uncommon."

"Do people ever play for matchsticks or, like, candy, or anything, instead of creds?" Kaidan wondered, "I know they do for poker. Not on the Normandy; our crew was made up of cardsharks."

"Dejarik sounds interesting," he added, "I'd probably enjoy learning how to play, if you can get your hands on a board."

It dawned on him what Kanan had just said. Intergalactic travel. That.. was something worth thinking about.

Portalocity was really handy for intergalactic travel! Or going through time, or to completely different realities. It was also, occassionally, far more annoying than any trip from one place to the other really had any right to be.

"I'm sure people play sabacc for pittance whenever there's a reason for it. Kids, maybe? Or folks who have nothing left under the Empire's heel who still need to pass the time. Then again, I've seen idiots in cantinas after a few too many drinks, gambling away entire ships." Kanan shrugged. "I'll check with Hera. I know there's a dejarik table in the Ghost's common area, but I have no idea if it actually works."

He paused for a moment, and then shook his head. "Then again, I'd be surprised if it didn't."

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"Ignorant Earthers who've never seen the game before," Kaidan suggested with a grin, as an addition to who might play for pittance. "I don't have a ship to gamble away. There's no fuel for it here yet, so I torched and sank it."

"Bring the dejarik ..table? board?.. by when you find a copy? It'd be interesting to learn."

Kanan actually grimaced a little at the torching and the sinking.

"You know, uh, it's probably possible to get fuel here," he noted, a sort of wry awkwardness in his voice, something edging onto apologetic. "If there's one thing this island has going for it, it's the access it has to other realities and their resources, too. My... my roommate runs the scrapyard, but there's a landing strip for ships there."

It was a little less of a final solution than just trashing it, though Kanan figured maybe he shouldn't push the matter, exactly, either. Most people didn't torch and sink their ships just because they ran out of fuel, after all.

"But I'll see what I can do about the dejarik," he added, a little more lightly. "The table on Hera's ship is probably more of a permanent fixture, but there's no reason I can't pick up another one the next time we head back home."

"Not an option," Kaidan said flatly. Then realized how that sounded and added apologetically, "There'll be fuel for it, eventually. I don't even want to think about what'd happen if anyone got their hands on Eezo now. It's not a stable element at the best of times. The discovery and development of Eezo.. well, it's a milestone for Earth. Having it happen earlier than it's gonna would lead to a whole lot of other things happening earlier, and that'd be hell on the entire space/time continuum."

Not to mention kicking off the Reaper war 160 years earlier, before Shepard had even been born. Or creating human biotics before they'd even met the Asari. Kaidan tried not to shudder.

"But yeah, if you get your hands on a board, let's play."

"Fair enough," Kanan replied. "I know a thing or two about timeline worries. One of the bartenders in town comes from three thousand years before my time, same world."

Maybe he'd mention that Fandom was so much its own thing that it hardly managed to count as Earth... another time. Kaidan seemed to have his mind made up, and it wasn't like he could un-sink a ship with any sort of ease, right?

"Sounds like you're intent on sticking around a while, then. If I get my hands on that board, you can consider it a housewarming gift."

"This is apparently my world, just.. earlier," Kaidan added, "I mean, not this island, I don't think, but Vancouver was still Vancouver. My family is still there, but my parents haven't been born yet. It was odd."

Shrugging a shoulder, he noted, "That's one reason I'm here - everything's odd, so I don't feel quite as displaced as I did when I landed."

"You've picked a good island to end up on if you want to balance out the personal odd with a little bit of consistent weird," Kanan agreed, looking thoughtful. "I'm sure if you talk to enough people, you'll probably run into a few from Earth who won't even agree with you about how the rest of the world is made. That's the different realities at play. It gets complicated, but sometimes it's just easier to just roll with it."

Kanan had had a lot of headaches before learning to just roll with it, when he first came to Fandom.

[ooc note: I keep mistyping my own character's name because I'm looking at yours. XD]

Kaidan shrugged a shoulder and offered another lopsided grin. "Hey, even in my time, there were still people arguing that the Earth was flat. We had pictures of it, from all angles, from space. Clearly a slightly squashed globe. They still argued. In my lifetime, we found out humans weren't alone in the universe. I'm willing to believe a whole lot of things and take them on faith that they're true somewhere. Right now the main thing this Earth offers me is hope. I could do with a large helping of that right now."

[[OOC: OH GOOD IT ISN'T JUST ME. xD]]

Huh.

That was heavier than Kanan had expected this conversation to turn. Not in a bad way, just a food-for-thought sort of way that made him go silent for a moment, tilting his head at Kaidan as he ran it through his mind a few more times.

"When all else fails, hope," he said, finally. "That's not a bad way to look at it. For what it's worth, I hope you find that hope here. A lot of people who end up on the island when they least expect it and most need it tend to have at least some luck with that."

Himself included.

Kaidan only looks like a dumb jockbro. He thinks. He philosophizes. He broods. Oh god, does he brood. Thankfully, he's not brooding just now.

"At least it's not boring," Kaidan agreed.

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